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Little Thornapple River (Wisconsin)
Thornapple River is a river in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, Sawyer and Rusk County, Wisconsin, Rusk counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The Thornapple rises in northeast Sawyer County in the Chequamegon National Forest at . It flows primarily south-southwest into the Chippewa River (Wisconsin), Chippewa River near Bruce, Wisconsin, Bruce at . Among the tributaries of the Thornapple, there are two streams named Little Thornapple River. One is a right-side tributary entirely within Sawyer County near the boundary with Rusk County, flowing from primarily to the west and slightly south into the Thornapple River at . The other Little Thornapple River is a left-side tributary that rises in southern Sawyer County at , less than west-southwest of the mouth of the other Little Thornapple River. The second Little Thornapple, flows primarily to the south and southwest into Rusk County and empties into the Thornapple River at , approximately from the mouth of the Thornapple near Bruce. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sawyer County, Wisconsin
Sawyer County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,074. Its county seat is Hayward. The county partly overlaps with the reservation of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. History The area that is now Sawyer County was contested between the Dakota and Ojibwe people in the eighteenth century. Oral histories tell that the Ojibwes defeated the Dakotas locally in the Battle of the Horse Fly on the Upper Chippewa River in the 1790s. By this time Lac Courte Oreilles had become the site of an Ojibwe village. Ojibwes allowed trader Michel Cadotte to build a fur trade outpost in the area in 1800. The United States acquired the region from the Ojibwe nation in the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters, but the Ojibwes retained the right to hunt and fish on treaty territory. Ojibwe people successfully negotiated to establish the permanent Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation in the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe. The count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
